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Re: PR2076

To: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
Subject: Re: PR2076
From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:17:19 -0700
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <20010425115428P.mitchell@codesourcery.com> <20010425132116.B10552@redhat.com> <jm66fsg0f8.fsf@geoffk.org>

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 02:00:11PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> It's probably because of STRICT_ARGUMENT_NAMING.

Indeed it is.

> This is a compatibility hack that causes the last argument to a
> varargs function to be treated as unnamed, because that's how GCC
> used to do it and some backends rely on it (it could change the ABI).

Ug.  It does indeed change the abi.  What a crock.  Well, any
idea how xlc treats this situation?  I suspect they don't load
do this sort of thing, at which point we can make this change
as a compatability bug fix.

r~

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  - From: Mark Mitchell
- Re: PR2076
  - From: Richard Henderson
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